Throughout the summer of 2015, I will be studying the change history in a open-source multi-threaded software project to see what types of changes have been made to condition variable operations.
Mozilla Firefox(free web browser) is the software I will be focusing on and Mercurial is the source-code management tool that will enable me to keep up with advancements to the source code. This research's objective will be to understand as well as discover the common types of changes in condition variable operations like signal and wait that developers encounter when building multi-threaded software. The outcome of this project will also benefit other researchers to program tools like signal and wait operations and algorithms for writing better concurrent software so that developers can handle over-synchronization problems easily.
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